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Show TRIPLE MURDERT The Pelican Point Butchery the Most Foul on Record. IS HAYES THE CRIMINAL? The Cloud of Suspicion Settles Darker and Heavier Over Him-The Bodies of Johnson andNelaon Found Both Shot in the Head From Behind. The news that reached Provoon Sat-i Sat-i urd&y evening concerning the Telican Point murder mystery was expected, yet it waa startling. . The bodies of Andrew Jonnson and Alfred Nelson, cousins of Alfred Ern-strom Ern-strom had been four; d. Some liend in human form, in the cold month of February last, dtliLer-ately.and dtliLer-ately.and apparently without cause.on that cold, black peninsula took the lives of three promising and inoffensive inof-fensive young men and then heartlessly threw their bodies into the lake, food for the fishes, the reptiles and things that crawl. It will be remembered that II. T. Hayes, stepfather of Ernstrom, when asked the day after Alfred's body was found by Sheriff Iirown where te thought the other two boys were, replied re-plied off-handed and aB though he knew of & verity: "They are in the lake," and later vochsafed the further information that a team and wagon, missing, were also in the lake, that the bodies had been loade i in the wagon and the whole driven out upon the ice and sunk. It now and soon devlopes that Hayes' theory (it was given as a theory only, although in a tone that indicated in-dicated positive knowledge, and not a mere theory, waa being imparted; was correct so far aa the boys were concernedmany con-cernedmany believe it will yet prove correct bo far as the wagon and team are concerned also. City Marshal Karren of Lehi brought the news of the finding of the bodiei. Coroner Berg and Deputy U. S. Marshal Fowler and a couple of newspaper reporters re-porters immediately joined Mr. Karren nd went over to Lehi on the late train. Proeecnting Attorney Gash and E. A. Wedgwood joined them yesterday morning. They, together with Drs Seabright and Thorpe of Lehi, and the coroner's jury summoned to investigate investi-gate these murders, yesterday drova over to the Point, examined the bodies, placed them is caskets and took them to the house on the Hayes ranch from which place relatives toon thtm today to Benjamin for burial. The party returned last eyenin. Most f them went back to Lehi today pb witnesses before the coroner's jury which is in session there taking evidence. evi-dence. The dragging of the lake is Etill being prosecuted in the hopes of finding the team and wagon. This done, it becomes conclusive, it is clear now, as to how and why the murders were committed who committed them will be haid to prove positively under any circumstances that are likely to arise A confession is not likely to be made, and circumstantial evidence sel dom hangs people and for the perpetrator perpe-trator of tbis vile crime hanging ie altogether al-together too good. The bodies of Johnson and Xelson were found at about 3 o'clock on Satur-dav Satur-dav afternoon. Tne lake had become entirely too rough for the fishermen who were dragging it to manage their boats upon it and they had given over work for the day. A party consisting of H. T. Hayes, stepfather of Ein-strem; Ein-strem; John A. Hansen, uncle of Eru-etrom Eru-etrom and Johnson, (Mrs. Hayes and Johnson's mother, Mrs. Tyrrell, aie sisters); a Mr. Tyrrell, stepfather of Johnson and 8. C. Peterson, uncle of IS eleon, walked on I'own the Bhore of the lake about a mile farther south 'than the point at which Ernstrom's body waB found and there came upon trie bodies of Johnson and Nelson. Mr. Tyrrell at once carried the news to Lehi. Johneon's body was found first lying face downward in the sand his left arm extended out beyond his head and his right.down by his side. He had on an under shirt and an over shirt, both pulled partially over his head. He al-eo al-eo had on a pair of pants, then a pair of overalls and anotner pair of pants. These were down about his feet leaving leav-ing the greater portion of his body nude. Undoubtedly when the poor man was murdered he was lying ly-ing in bed, as it ia customary custom-ary for many campers and ranchers uuou retiring not to take off their clothes entirely, but to merely losen them. He had a bullet hole in the back of his head, the ball had entered back of his right ear and came out back of his left ear. Nelson's body was found about twenty yards south of Johnson's, and floating in the water. Nelson's clothing cloth-ing was al3o loosened as though he had Leen in bed when his assassin first surprised sur-prised him- He had a pair of corduroy pants on, also a pair of overhalls His coat was gone, he wore his veBt. Neither man had shoes on; their hats of course were gone. The poor boy Ncvlson he was only eighteen years of age and had been in this country .but two years received from his murderer a shot squarely in the center of the back of bis head. Undoubtedly Johnson was killed first and before Nelson's eyes who turned to run away from the sickening sight and waB shot from behind be-hind by his cowardly assaesin. The ball lodged over Nelson's right eye. It was badly battered but eeems heav; enough lor a 44 calibre, although it may have been smaller. Ao one has at this writing been placed under arrest, Hayes realizes that many suspect him of being the criminal. He strongly protests his in-nocente. in-nocente. He carried with hip all day yesterday a gun. Evidently he ex pected some one to attack him and desired de-sired to be prepared to defend himself. He answered questions unres-rvedly, in fact he is much more frank and act.' less suspiciously now than he did at first. There is no evidence locating him anywhere else than in Eureka during the middle part of February and what motive he could poesibly have had for killing any one of the three men cannot be conceived by any one now working on the case. He la a German about sixty years of age with a cold, grey, expressionless eye, and seems to lack feeling. Occasionally, however, his chin trembles and a qualm seema to pass over him. The proof so far before the coroner's jury eeems to point conclusively t the fact that all three of these mnrders were committed on February 17th last. The theory that seems . most rational is that Albert Ernstrom was killed, prob ably in the heat of the passion of a endden quarrel, before Johnson and NeL:on reached the ranch that day. When they appeared upon the ecene the murderer saw that he was entrapped en-trapped if they lived and concluded to kill them in order to still any evidence they might eive against him. That he came upon them" stealthily and killed them after they had gone to bed seems clear, for it ia learned that one of the blankets that was in the cabin that night has a big corner cut out of it undoubtedly this was burned, buried or carried away because it was stained with the blood that oozed from the wound in Andrew Johnson's head. It came out in evidence that there was blood found on the floor of the cabin also the theory is that this came from tbe wound in Alfred Nelson 'b head. It came out in evidence also that a pool of blood was found by Mr. Petersen near the corral when firat went upon tbe ranch. It may be that Alfred Ernstrom Ern-strom met his death at that spot earlier on the same day,and that later all three bodies were thrown into the lake by one of the crnelest, coldest blooded murderers that ever took human life. |